Kayak adventure in Pembrokeshire

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Learn to paddle your own canoe in the creeks, coves and caves in Britain’s only coastal national park

We were paddling out of Abercastle, Pembrokeshire, when a local fisherman had a friendly go, advising us on how we might go about sourcing fresh mackerel supplies.

“Just run a line behind you,” he chortled, tossing fish guts to the milling gulls. “You’ll know you’ve caught something when you feel yourselves going backwards.”

Teasing is something that sea kayaks, with their dinky dimensions and rubber-duck primary colours, tend to cop. Not that this has stopped the recent rush to take up this easy-to-learn, low-impact sport, Preseli Venture, the Pembrokeshire-based activity operator, has doubled the number of sea-kayaking courses that it